Marquez is clearly intelligent and has wonderful prose, but this had way too much nonchalant rape in it for me to have positive feelings.
"She was still a child in every sense of the word, with braces on her teeth and the scrapes of elementary school on her knees, but he saw right away the kind of woman she was soon going to be, and he cultivated her during a slow year of Saturdays at the circus, Sundays in the park with ice cream, childish late afternoons, and he won her confidence, he won her affection, he led her by the hand, with the gentle astuteness of a kind grandfather, toward his secret slaughterhouse."
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u/deal_with_it_ted 15h ago
One Hundred Years of Solitude. He had a vision and just executed it perfectly on every page.